Improvement in cookmg-lasvlps



G. P; HOUSTON.

Cooking-Lamp. V NO. 163,202, w PatentedMay1L18 75.

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PATENT GEORGE PORTER HOUSTON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 163,202, dated May 11,1875; application filed April 24,1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE PORTER Hons- TON, of Washin gton city,District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin (looking-Lamps, of which the following is a clear, full, and exactdescrip tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents the lamp inperspective; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the lamp; Fig. 3, thelamp-support with lamp removed; Fig. 4, the support in detached parts.

My invention relates to that class of cooking lamps or stoves designedfor use in boating or picnic parties; and it consists in a de vice foradjusting and regulating the flame and heat, and in the peculiarconstruction and manner of sustaining the lamp-support.

My invention is an improvement on my improved cooking-lamp, for which Iobtained Letters Patent No. 154,484, dated August 25, 1874.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1 willproceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A represents my improved lamp or stove, partiallyfilled with some suitable absorbent, B, covered with a wire-gauze disk,O. The body of the lamp consists of two parts, the holder a and the capa. The latter has one or more openings, exposing the surface of thewire-gauze, as seen in Fig. 1. To the center of the cap is pivoted thevalve D, which, byturning on its pivot, can be made to cover the wholeor any portion of the exposed wire-gauze, and consequently regulate, or,if need be, cut off the entire flame.

It is evident from this description that the heat of my lamp or stove isreadily adjusted, thus overcoming a difficulty which has heretoforeattended the use of these and similar lamps.

The support of mylamp, as described in my former patent, was hinged to acommon piutle, and an excellent arrangement for the smaller lamps; butfor lamps sufficiently large to meet the wants of a boating party, sayeight or ten men, it is necessary to have a support larger than can bethus conveniently hinged to a common pintle. The object of my improvedsupportis to overcome this difficulty. The support consists of threeplates, 1, 2, and 3, cut as shown in Fig. 4, and are locked together asfollows: No. l is first placed vertically in position next, No. 2 ispassed into the slot in No. 1, and then No. 3 is passed down diagonallythrough the slots of both Nos. 1 and 2, and the three plates standlocked together, in which position they may be secured by the safety-pinb, as shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a cooking lamp or stove constructedas described, the valve D, in combination with the holder a and cap a,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a cooking lamp or stove, the plates 1, 2, and 3,forming the sup port, substantially as described.

GEO. PORTER HOUSTON.

Witnesses:

JAMES STEVENSON, WILL. H. MoXoN.

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